College IDs cut from voter identification bill

Students still can't use school-issued cards at polls

12:27 AM,
Apr. 5, 2013

Written by

Brian Wilson
| The Tennessean

Students at public universities still won't be able to use their school-issued ID to vote after the state Senate on Thursday voted to remove a provision allowing their use from a new voter identification bill.

By agreeing 23-7 with an identical version of the bill passed in the state House, senators sent the legislation, which now allows faculty and graduate assistants to use their college-issued ID to cast a ballot and bans voters from using state-issued library cards, to Gov. Bill Haslam for approval.

Sen. Bill Ketron, the Murfreesboro Republican who sponsored the Senate version, said he ...